Issue type

Date

Event summary

BAR scale

Hydropower

1995/2/24

China’s Yunnan Province welcomes foreign investors to develop a large-scale hydropower plants & is poised to consider cooperation with Thailand in construction of dams.

1

Joint management

1994/11/25

Four countries have cleared the last hurdle to use the mainstream Mekong River during the dry season, which held up agreement for 3 years, & will initial an historic agreement on managing the river. The countries have been negotiating a framework for water use in the Mekong for purposes such as irrigation, hydropower, navigation, flood control, fisheries, transportation of timber & tourism.

3

Technical cooperation/ assistance

1993/7/27

In late July, Khondahak, chief of the Houai Sai District, Bokeo Province (Laos) and Zhong, chief of La District, Yunnan Province, People’s Republic of China, signed a cooperation memorandum for surveying a small hydroelectric generation project in Houai Sai District.

4

Joint management

1991/1/1

Cambodia requests reactivation of Mekong Committee.

2

Navigation

1990/6/18

China and Laos completed their first joint survey of the Mekong River to determine the possibility of opening the waterway to more trade.

3

Water quantity

1980/2/4

A memorandum of irrigation cooperation between the delegations of the Laos Agriculture, Forestry, and Irrigation Ministry and the Vietnamese Water Conservancy Ministry was signed in Vietiane.

4

Economic development

1975/1/31

Joint declaration of principles for utilization of the waters of the Lower Mekong Basin, signed by Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam

4